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Viking Leadership Credential

The Viking Leadership Credential is a comprehensive leadership development program that blends academic coursework with experiential learning and mentoring.

Why Grand View?

  • Integrate classroom coursework with on-campus leadership activities and service learning opportunities. 
  • You’ll be paired with campus and community leaders in mentoring relationships to guide you in your leadership growth. 
  • Develop a leadership portfolio describing your leadership growth and development.
  • Present your leadership experiences to a group of faculty and staff.

Course Requirements

Application Process

  1. Students must enroll first in LDCR-250-Foundations of Leadership for the fall semester during their first semester of their sophomore year. While they are taking LDCR-250, students will apply to VLC.
  2. All applications must be completed and submitted by October 1 to the director of VLC. Applications will be reviewed by a group of faculty and staff members of Grand View, and students will be notified by October 30 of their acceptance into the program.
  3. There is a minimum GPA of 2.5 to be accepted into the program. Students must maintain a GPA of 3.0 for the coursework in the program (a B average for all components of the program).

Program Snapshot

  • Integrate classroom coursework with on-campus leadership activities and service learning opportunities. 
  • You’ll be paired with campus and community leaders in mentoring relationships to guide you in your leadership growth. 
  • Develop a leadership portfolio describing your leadership growth and development.
  • Present your leadership experiences to a group of faculty and staff. 

Career Options

All job candidates look for ways to stand out from the crowd, to get noticed and rewarded for the qualities, skills and capabilities employers want most. Among the qualities in short supply these days is leadership -- the personal insights and skills of a leader, as well as the experience to go with them.

With the Viking Leadership Credential, you can not only gain those skills and polish your natural leadership capabilities, but you can also verify to potential employers that you’ve demonstrated them in a variety of challenging circumstances.

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